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Subject: You Can't Call Anywhere From USA
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Date: 31 Jan 91 16:54:13 GMT
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In article <16552@accuvax.nwu.edu> julian%bongo.UUCP@nosc.mil (Julian
Macassey) writes:

> My 1982 Edition of "Telephony's Dictionary" shows a cable between Key
> West, Florida and Havana Cuba. The number of circuits is not listed,
> but I would guess it is less than fifty. I have no idea when the cable
> was laid or whether it is still in use.

On a visit to Key West last year, near the red concrete block that
marks "The Southernmost Point in the Continental US", I noticed a
small concrete hut.  I was told that it housed the terminus of a
telephone cable to Havana and was currently unused.  I recall
something about the cable being laid 75 or so years ago.


Peter Clitherow, Bellcore, pc@bellcore.com
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